Sonny, were you home schooled? The Constitution set up not one, but TWO levels of Congress, with senators being appointed and NOT elected by the people, exactly because they did NOT trust the people to govern themselves. Read the Federalist Papers, moron.
“Do you trust the people?”
We had barely been seated at the restaurant when my guest fired off his query. I had asked him to lunch after a state capitol event, where he was advocating that Minnesota should trade its bicameral legislature for a unicameral, and I had been pitching the idea of establishing statewide initiative and referendum.
He was a little skeptical of initiative and referendum. I was completely certain that without the initiative his idea would never see the light of day.
“No, I don’t trust the people,” I responded. “But I trust the people a whole lot...
You don't need the Federalist papers to understand the two levels of Congress-it's clearly written in the Constitution. And I agree with you that the Founders did not trust a direct democracy (majority rules), rather a federalist democracy. At the same time, the Founders tried to limit the federal governments authority by respecting state sovereignty and individual's rights - they clearly were weary of governments.